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CURRICULUM VITAE FOR REBECCA L. WALKOWITZ
Updated: May 2015
EMPLOYMENT
2007Rutgers University
Director of Graduate Studies, 2014Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2011-2012
Associate Professor, Department of English, 2007Affiliate Faculty Member, Program in Comparative Literature, 2009Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2009-2010
Organizer, Modernism and Globalization Seminar Series, 2007Member of Executive Committee, Center for Cultural Analysis, 20072000-2007
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Associate Professor, Department of English, 2006-2007
Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2000-2006
EDITORIAL
2011Literature Now. Editor and Founder, with Matthew Hart and David James. Book series
publishing scholarship on contemporary writing. First-ever series to welcome projects
that are comparative and transnational in scope as well as those focused on national and
regional literary cultures. Columbia University Press.
2008- 2012 Editor, with Lynn Keller and Thomas Schaub, Contemporary Literature
2004-2008
Associate Editor, Contemporary Literature
PROFESSIONAL
2014-2015 President. Modernist Studies Association. Elected.
2013-2014 First Vice President, Modernist Studies Association. Elected.
2012-2013 Second Vice President, Modernist Studies Association. Elected.
2010-2015 Member and Chair (2013). Executive Committee. Division on Prose Fiction. Modern
Language Association. Elected.
2009-2012
Advisory Board Member (4 yrs) and Publications Chair (2010-2012). American
Comparative Literature Association
2008-2011
Program Chair and Trustee. Modernist Studies Association (3 yrs)
2006-2009
Trustee. Joseph Conrad Society of America
2004-2008
Member and Chair (2007). Executive Committee. Twentieth-Century English Literature
Division, MLA
EDUCATION
2000
Ph.D.
Harvard University, English and American Literature and Language
1997
A.M.
Harvard University, English and American Literature and Language
1995
M.Phil. University of Sussex, English Literature and Critical Theory
1992
A.B.
Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, History and Literature, magna cum laude
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
2012
Walter Jackson Bate Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
University
2012
Elected as Second Vice President, Modernist Studies Association (ascending to President in
2014-2015)
2010
Hurford Family Fellowship, National Humanities Center
2009
Elected to Executive Committee, Division on Prose Fiction, Modern Language Association
2008
Elected to Advisory Board, American Comparative Literature Association
2008
Elected as Program Chair, Modernist Studies Association
2008
Honorable Mention, George and Barbara Perkins Prize for most significant book in narrative
studies, awarded to Cosmopolitan Style
2006
Elected to Board of Trustees, Joseph Conrad Society of America
2006
Phillip R. Certain Distinguished Faculty Award for most distinguished faculty member to
receive tenure in the College of Letters & Science, UW-Madison
2006
Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison
2006
Graduate School Research Grant, UW-Madison
2006
Center for European Studies Faculty Travel Grant, UW-Madison
2005
Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award, university-wide award conferred on 10 faculty
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members annually, UW-Madison
2005
Honors Student Organization Outstanding Professor Award, UW-Madison
2005
Center for European Studies Faculty Research Grant, UW-Madison
2005
Graduate School Research Grant, UW-Madison
2004
Graduate Student Association Teaching Award, UW-Madison
2004
Elected to Executive Committee, Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature, Modern
Language Association
2003
Joseph Conrad Society of America Young Scholar Award
2003
Graduate School Research Grant, UW-Madison
2003
Center for European Studies Faculty Travel Grant, UW-Madison
2003
Border and Transcultural Studies Course Development Grant, UW-Madison
2003
Jewish Studies Course Incentive Grant, UW-Madison
2002
ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship
2002
Residential Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison
2002
Graduate School Research Grant, UW-Madison
2001
Graduate School Research Grant, UW-Madison
2000
Award for Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
1998
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Humanities Dissertation Fellowship
1998
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
1997
Award for Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
1997
Harvard Merit Fellowship, Harvard University
1996
Annie B. Dexter Prize for research travel, Harvard University
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1994
Harvard Graduate Scholarship (2 years), Harvard University
1994
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (4 years), U. S. Department of Education
1992
British Marshall Scholarship (2 years), United Kingdom
1991
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges
1991
President, The Harvard Crimson
PUBLICATIONS
Under Contract
Edited, with Eric Hayot. A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism. Modernist Latitudes book
series. Columbia University Press.
Books
2015
2006
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in the Age of World Literature. Literature Now
book series. Columbia University Press.
Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation. New York: Columbia University Press.
Paperback, 2007.
►Honorable Mention, 2008 George and Barbara Perkins Prize for most significant book in
narrative studies
►Reviewed: Modernism/modernity 14.1 (2007); Politics and Culture 2.2 (2007); Publisher’s
Weekly (7 August 2006); CHOICE (January 2007); American Book Review (March/April
2007); M/C Reviews (10 August 2007); Textual Practice 21.3 (September 2007);
Comparative Literature Studies 44.3 (2007); James Joyce Literary Supplement 21.2 (Fall
2007); The Year’s Work in English Studies 87.1 (2008); Comparative Literature 60. 2 (Spring
2008); Studies in the Novel 40.3 (Fall 2008); Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
10.1 (Spring 2009); H-German (August 2009); Modern Fiction Studies 55.4 (Winter 2009);
Twentieth-Century Literature 54, no. 3 (Fall 2008); NOVEL 43, no. 2 (Summer 2010).
Edited Books
2007
Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press.
2006
Bad Modernisms, co-edited with Douglas Mao. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
►Reviewed: Modernism/modernity 14.2 (2007); CHOICE (December 2006); Forum for
Modern Language Studies 45.3 (2007); Common Knowledge 14.1 (2008); Woolf Studies
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Annual 24 (2008); The Year’s Work in English Studies 87.1 (2008); Minnesota Review 71-72
(2009); American Literary Scholarship (2006); Studies in the Novel 41.1 (2009); minnesota
review 76 (2011).
2000
The Turn to Ethics, co-edited with Marjorie Garber and Beatrice Hanssen. New York and
London: Routledge.
1999
One Nation Under God? Religion and American Culture, co-edited with Marjorie Garber.
New York and London: Routledge.
1996
Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies, co-edited with Marjorie Garber and Paul
B. Franklin. New York and London: Routledge.
1995
Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America, co-edited with
Marjorie Garber. New York and London: Routledge.
1993
Media Spectacles, co-edited with Marjorie Garber and Jann Matlock. New York and London:
Routledge.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Review Essays
2015 “English as a Foreign Language: David Mitchell and the Born-Translated Novel.” Special
issue of SubStance on “Translation’s Currencies,” edited by André Habib and Marc-Alexandre
Reinhardt. 7800 words. Forthcoming, August.
2015 “Future Reading.” The 2014-2015 Report on the State of the Discipline of Comparative
Literature, edited by Ursula Heise, et al. 2000 words. Web. URL:
http://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/future-reading.
2015
“Preface: Global Ishiguro.” Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context, edited by Cynthia F. Wong
and Hülya Yildiz. Farnham, England: Ashgate Press. xi-xiv. Print.
2014 “Translating the Untranslatable.” Interview with Barbara Cassin. Public Books, an online
feature of the journal Public Culture. June 15. 3000 words. Web. URL:
http://www.publicbooks.org/interviews/translating-the-untranslatable-an-interview-withbarbara-cassin.
2013
“Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing.” Solicited for a special issue on “What Counts as
World Literature?” edited by Caroline Levine and B. Venkat Mani. MLQ. Vol. 74. No. 2. 171195.
2012
“Building Character.” Solicited contribution for roundtable on Amy Waldman’s The
Submission. Published as part of launch for Public Books, an online feature of the journal
Public Culture. 2000 words. March. Web. URL:
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http://www.publicculture.org/news/view/public-books-rebecca-l-walkowitz-on-the-submission.
2011 “For Translation: Virginia Woolf, J.M. Coetzee, and Transnational Comparison.” Legacies of
Modernism: Historicizing Postwar and Contemporary Fiction, edited by David James.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 243-263.
Reprinted (2013) in English Language Notes 51, no. 1. 35-50.
2011 “Why Transnational Modernism Can’t Be All in One Language.” Special issue on
“Transnational Ethics,” edited by Laura Winkiel. English Language Notes 49, no. 1
(Spring/Summer 2011). 157-160.
2009 “Comparison Literature.” Special issue on “Comparison,” edited by Rita Felski and Susan
Stanford Friedman. New Literary History. Vol. 40. No. 3. 567-582.
Reprinted (2013) in Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses, edited by Rita Felski and Susan
Stanford Friedman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 235-252.
2009 “The Post-Consensus Novel: Minority Culture, Multiculturalism, and Transnational
Comparison.” The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel, edited by
Robert L. Caserio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 221-235. Commissioned article.
2008 “The New Modernist Studies.” Authored with Douglas Mao. PMLA. Vol 123, no. 3. 737-748.
Commissioned article.
2008 “Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature.”
NOVEL. Vol. 40. No. 3. 216-239. Commissioned article for special issue on “Kazuo Ishiguro,”
edited by Lisa Fluet.
Hungarian translation (forthcoming). Tímea Jablonczay, translator. Helikon: Transnational
Perspectives in Literary Studies. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. Print.
2007 “The Location of Literature: The Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer.” Immigrant
Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization, edited by Rebecca L.
Walkowitz. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 527-545.
Reprinted (2013) in Global Literary Theory: An Anthology, edited by Richard Lane. London
and New York: Routledge.
Danish translation (2010). “Litteraturens sted: den transnationale bog og migrantforfatteren.”
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, translator. Litteratur i bevægelse [Literature in Motion], edited by
Mads Rosendhal Thomsen and Dan Ringgaard. Verdenslitteratur [World Literature] series,
edited by Jorn Ersely Anderson. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 37-49.
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2006 “Narrative Theatricality: Joseph Conrad’s Drama of the Page.” Against Theatre: Creative
Destructions on the Modernist Stage, edited by Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner. London:
Palgrave. 171-188.
2006 “Virginia Woolf’s Evasion: Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism.” Bad
Modernisms, edited by Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Durham and London: Duke
University Press. 119-144.
2006 “Introduction: Modernisms Bad and New.” Authored with Douglas Mao. Bad Modernisms,
edited by Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Durham and London: Duke University
Press. 1-18.
2004 “Ian McEwan.” Companion to the British and Irish Novel: 1945-2000, edited by Brian Shaffer.
London: Blackwell. 504-513. Paperback reprint, 2007.
2002 “Ethical Criticism: The Importance of Being Earnest.” Contemporary Literature. Vol. 43. No.
1. 187-93. Review of Andrew Gibson, Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to
Levinas and Bruce Robbins, Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress.
2001 “Conrad’s Adaptation.” Special issue on “Modernism and Anti-Theatricality.” Modern Drama.
Vol. 44. No. 3. 318-36.
2001 “Ishiguro’s Floating Worlds.” ELH. Vol. 68. No. 4. 1037-1064.
2000 “Cosmopolitan Ethics.” The Turn to Ethics, edited by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and
Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York and London: Routledge. 221-30.
1999 “Shakespeare in Harlem: The Norton Anthology, ‘Propaganda,’ Langston Hughes.” Modern
Language Quarterly. Vol. 60. No. 4. 495-519.
1995 “Introduction: Secret Agents.” Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties
America, edited by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York and London:
Routledge. 1-8.
1993 “Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics.” Media Spectacles, edited by
Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York and London;
Routledge. 40-56. Reprinted in Feminist Television Criticism, edited by Charlotte Brunsdon,
Julie D’Acci, and Lynn Spigel. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 325336.
Book Reviews
2014 Review of Gayle Rogers, Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and
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Literary History. Modernism/modernity. September.
2011 Review of Jahan Ramazani, A Transnational Poetics. Modern Language Quarterly 72.1. 120124.
2008 Review of Mark Wollaeger, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900
to 1945. Modernism/modernity 15, no. 1 (January 2008). 6 manuscript pages.
2005 Review of David Adams, Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel. The
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Vol. 6. No. 1.
2003 Review of Anne Ferry, Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies.
Modern Language Quarterly. Vol. 64. No. 1. 123-26.
2001 “One-Way Street.” The Women’s Review of Books. Review of Paula Kamen, Her Way: Young
Women Remake the Sexual Revolution.
1998 “A Fine Romance.” Soundings: A journal of politics and culture. Issue 8. 107-10. Review of
Ian McEwan, Enduring Love.
RECENT INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2016 TBA. Sawyer Seminar on “Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in the Public Sphere.” University
of Wisconsin-Madison. March.
2016 TBA. Department of English, University of Miami. February.
2015 TBA. Postcolonial Studies Group. CUNY Graduate Seminar. November.
2015 TBA. Department of English. University of Virginia. October.
2015 Keynote speaker. Inverted Runes: New Perspectives on Literary Translingualism. Conference
organized by the University of Uppsala. Sweden. September.
2015 “Post-Anglophone.” Locating Post45. Conference organized by the Department of English,
University of Pennsylvania. March.
2015 Keynote speaker. “Proleptic Translation.” Specters of History in Theory and Practice.
Conference organized by the Department of English, Michigan State University. February.
2014 Keynote speaker. “Cosmopolitanism in the Second Person.” Conference on “Travelling
Con/Texts: Cosmopolitanisms Old & New, East & West.” Sixtieth anniversary meeting of the
English Language and Literature Association of Korea. Seoul, Korea. November.
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2014 Invited speaker and seminar leader. Departments of English, Spanish, German, and French.
Sponsored by the Provost and Office of Academic Affairs, Tulane University. September.
2014 “English as a Foreign Language.” Postcolonial Colloquium. Department of English, New York
University. February.
2013 “This Is Not Your Language.” 20/21 Colloquium. Department of English, Yale University.
December.
2013 “This is Not Your Language.” Faculty Workshop, Rutgers British Studies Center. November.
2013 “Translation, Terminable and Interminable.” Symposium on “Comparative Modernisms.”
Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder. October.
2013 “Translated Characters.” Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group, Department of
English, University of Pennsylvania. September.
2013 “Modernism and the Market.” Roundtable on conceptualizing twentieth-century literature,
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. September.
2013 Keynote Speaker. Conference on “Mobility and Rootedness.” Center for the Humanities,
Washington University in St. Louis. February.
2012 “How to Read an Original.” Departments of French and Italian, English, and Comparative
Literature; and Program in European Cultural Studies, Princeton University. November.
2012 “Born Translated.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. October.
2012 Plenary Speaker. Conference on “Modernisms, Media, Modernities.” New York University and
Fordham University. May.
2012 Keynote Speaker. “Writing in Translation.” Conference on “Novel Worlds.” First biennial
meeting of the Society for Novel Studies. Duke University. April.
2012 Presidential Dream Course Speaker for series on “Bioethics and the Politics of Life.”
University of Oklahoma. April.
2011 Distinguished Speaker. “Born-Translated and Born-Digital: Comparative Writing in an Age of
Electronic Literature.” Department of English, College of St. Rose. February.
2010 Rheney Speaker. “Born-Translated and Born-Digital: Comparative Writing in an Age of
Electronic Literature.” Department of English, Vanderbilt University. October.
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2010 Annual Speaker and Seminar Leader. “After the National Paradigm: Literary History,
Translation, and the Making of World Literature.” 2010 Summer Seminar in Literary and
Cultural Studies. Department of English and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. West
Virginia University. May.
2010 Keynote Lecture. “Born-Translated and Born-Digital: Comparative Writing in an Age of
Electronic Literature.” Mellon Graduate Symposium on “Politics and Forms: Practices of
Misreading.” Brown University. April.
2009 Plenary Speaker. “Born-Translated and Born-Digital: Comparative Writing in an Age of
Electronic Literature.” Conference on “In a Few Wor(l)ds: The World Literature/s Conference
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.” University of Wisconsin-Madison. 3-5 December.
2009 “World Literature and Cosmopolitanism.” Colloquium on Philosophy and Education. Teachers
College, Columbia University. October.
2009 “World Literature and the Ethics of Transnational Comparison.” Theory and Literature
Symposium. Uppsala University, Sweden. June. Plenary speaker.
2009 Workshop on “World Literature and Ethics.” Theory and Literature Symposium. Uppsala
University, Sweden. June.
2009 “Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel.”
National/Transnational/Global Research Group. West Chester University. April.
2008 Roundtable on “Cosmopolitan and Uncosmopolitan International Spaces and Actors.”
Department of Romance Studies, Duke University. October.
2008 “Insiders and Outsiders: Cosmopolitanism, Transnational Comparison, and the Legacy of
Virginia Woolf.” Center for International Studies, Duke University. October.
2008 “Comparison Literature.” ELH Colloquium. Department of English, Johns Hopkins University.
October.
2008 Invited respondent. Conference on “The Way We Read Now: Symptomatic Reading and Its
Aftermath.” New York University and Columbia University. May.
2008 “The Transnational Turn in Modernist Studies.” Public Lecture. Department of English. Drew
University. April.
2008 “Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel.” Public Lecture.
Comparative Literature Luncheon Series. Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania
State University. March.
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2008 “Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature.”
Modernist Studies Lecture Series. Department of English, Pennsylvania State University.
March.
2008 “Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel.” Society of Fellows
Speaker Series on “The Poetics of Production.” Columbia University. March.
2007 “J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel.” Modernism Seminar, Humanities Center, Harvard
University. November.
2007 “The Novel, Geopolitics, and the State.” Invited Panel Organizer and Moderator. “Theories of
the Novel Now” Conference. Brown University. November.
2007 “Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel.” Twentieth Century
Colloquium, Department of English, Yale University. October.
2007 “Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature.” Precirculated paper. “The Question of the West” Seminar. Center for Historical Analysis. Rutgers
University. October.
2007 “New Approaches to Teaching World Literature.” Drew University. October.
2007 “Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the New Transnational Novel.” New Modern
British Studies Group, Department of English, Texas A&M University. October.
2007 “The Transnational Turn in Modernist Studies.” Graduate Workshop, Department of English,
Texas A&M University. October.
2007 “Cosmopolitan Style.” World Beyond our Borders Book Series. Sponsored by Division of
International Studies, UW-Madison. Borders Book Store. April.
2007 “Unimaginable Largeness: Cosmopolitanism and the World System of Books.” Conference on
“Cosmopolitan Cultures, Cosmopolitan Histories.” University of Wisconsin-Madison. March.
2006 “Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature.”
Department of English, Rutgers University. December.
2006 “Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature.”
Department of English, Loyola University (Chicago). November.
2006 “Cosmopolitanism and Translation.” Virtual international seminar on “Cosmopolitanism
Today.” Madison and Leeds (U.K.). November.
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2006 “Modernism and Globalization.” Symposium on Gender, Sexuality, Modernism. Department of
English, University of Pennsylvania. October.
2006 “Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature.”
Department of English, Tufts University. September.
2006 “Reading Beyond the Nation.” Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations conference. University of
Leeds (U. K.). June.
2006 “Coetzee in Translation.” Colloquium on “Animals, Poets, and Philosophers.” Sponsored by
Cogito and the Yapi Kredi Kultur Sanat Yayincilik. Istanbul, Turkey. May.
2006 “Eat Locally, Think Globally: Cosmopolitan Taste in Madison and Beyond.” Humanities
Forum on “Rooted Cosmopolitans.” Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Dane County Public Libraries. April.
2006 “Unimaginable Largeness.” Department of English, University of Michigan. April.
2006 “The Modern: Period or Paradigm?” Modern Studies Program. University of WisconsinMilwaukee. February.
TEACHING
Rutgers University
Graduate
Ulysses and Vernacular Fiction (Spring 2016)
The Contemporary Novel and the World
Contemporary Literature in an Age of World Literature
Postwar British Novel from Lamming to Sebald
Modernism, Translation, and the New World Literature
Undergraduate
Ulysses and After (Fall 2015)
What is Sophistication? (Honors seminar)
Violence and Creativity in the Twentieth Century
Critical and Uncritical Reading (Introduction to Literary Theory)
Introduction to the Contemporary British Novel
Vernacular Fictions: Joyce and After
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate
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Modernism, Translation, and the New World Literature
Cultural Institutions of the British Novel: Nations, Readers, Forms
The Late Henry James
Cosmopolitanism, Aestheticism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
Undergraduate
Introduction to the Contemporary British Novel
Vernacular Fictions: Joyce and After
Henry James Today
Critical and Uncritical Reading (Honors Seminar)
Civilization and Its Discontents (Honors Seminar)
Performing Jewishness: William Shakespeare to Ali G
Eleven undergraduate theses on topics in modernist and contemporary literature.
GRADUATE ADVISING
Dissertation Advising (director)
2015Scott Challener, “From the Outside: Latin American Anthologies and the Secondariness
of U.S. Literature”
2015Evan Dresman, “Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and the Scale of the
Everyday”
2014Ian Bignall, “Public Space and the Contemporary British Novel”
2013Torleif Persson, “Writing and Visibility in the Postwar American Novel”
2012Fred Solinger, “Sounding Modernism: An Aural History of the Novel.” Bevier
Fellowship.
2011Emily Zubernis, “Minimal/Ethical: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Global Scale”; CCA
Fellowship; Bevier Fellowship; SAS Mellon Fellowship
2011Nami Shin, “Vexed Feelings: Multidirectional Migration and Contemporary Narrative”
Ph.D. 2014 Mark DiGiacomo, “How Africa Made Modernism: African Art and Twentieth-Century
Literature”; CCA Fellowship; SAS Mellon Fellowship; Lecturer, Department of
English, Rutgers University.
Ph.D. 2014 Octavio Gonzalez “Half a Person: Self-Divestiture and Impersonal Subjectivity in
Minoritarian Twentieth-Century Fiction.” Co-Director with Marianne DeKoven. SAS
Mellon Fellowship. Dean’s Research Award. Tenure-track assistant professor,
Wellesley College.
Ph.D. 2013 Jennifer Raterman, “The Novel of Translation: Multilingualism and the Ethics of
Reading.” Co-Director with David Kurnick. SAS Mellon Fellowship. AP English
Teacher, Linden Hall (independent boarding school).
Ph.D. 2012 Joshua Gang, “Behaviorism and Literary Modernity.” CCA Fellowship. Bevier
Fellowship. Dean’s Research Award. Tenure-track assistant professor, University of
California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. 2011 Kevin Piper, “The Knowledge of Others: Cosmopolitanism and Modern Curiosity.”
Lecturer, Madison College.
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Ph.D. 2011 Thom Dancer, “Critical Modesty: Literature, Pluralism, and the Work of Reading.”
Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Toronto.
Ph.D. 2010 Aarthi Vadde, “Genres of Collectivity: Cosmopolitanism and Belonging in Global
Anglophone Literature.” Co-Director with Rob Nixon. Tenure-track assistant
professor, Duke University.
Ph.D. 2009 Matthew Oliver, “Grotesque Britain: National Decline and the Post-Imperial
Imagination.” Tenure-track assistant professor, Campbellsville University.
Ph.D. 2008 Taryn Okuma, “Writing ‘The Good War’: Reimagining Violence in Post-1945 British
and New British Fiction.” Co-Director with Michael Bernard-Donals. Clinical
assistant professor, Catholic University.
Dissertation Advising (committees)
2014Kyle McAuley, Provincialism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel
Ph.D. 2012 Cheryl Alison, “Creatures of Habit,” Department of English, Tufts University
Ph.D. 2013 Megan Paustian, ‘The Novel of Failed Development: the Twentieth-Century African Novel
and the U.S. Novel about Africa.” Visiting Assistant Professor, North Central
College.
Ph.D. 2011 Amy Woodbury Tease, “Technical Difficulties,” Department of English, Tufts University.
Tenure-track assistant professor, Norwich University.
Ph.D. 2010 Amy Johnson, “Artificial Order: Ethical Aestheticism in Twentieth-Century Literature and
Contemporary Narrative.” Lecturer, University of Louisiana, Monroe.
Ph.D. 2009 Krista Kauffmann, “Visuality and Violence in Twentieth-Century British and Anglophone
Literature.” Tenure-track assistant professor, California Polytechnic University, San
Luis Obispo.
Ph.D. 2009 Travis Foster, “Affective Conventions: Friendship and Genre in U.S. Literary History”
Tenure-track assistant professor, Villanova University.
Ph.D. 2008 Lucienne Loh, “Beyond English Fields: Refiguring Colonial Nostalgia in a Cosmopolitan
World.” Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK.
Ph.D. 2007 Janine Tobeck, “Altered States: A Textual Ethics of the Inhuman in Postwar American
Fiction.” Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Ph.D. 2006 Michael Roeschlein, “British modernism and religion.” Visiting assistant professor,
Marquette University.
Ph.D. 2006 Elizabeth Evans, “Liminal London.” Tenure-track assistant professor, Pennsylvania State
University-Dubois.
Ph.D. 2006 Steven Belletto, “Chance and Design in Cold War American Fiction.” Associate professor,
Lafayette College.
Ph.D. 2005 Michael LeMahieu, “Making Reference.” Associate professor, Clemson University.
Ph.D. 2005 Matthew Brown, “Anxious States: Violence, Modernization, and Nationalism in British
and Irish Literature, 1916-1997.” Associate professor, University of MassachusettsBoston.
Ph.D. 2004 Mitchum Huehls, “Meaningful Forms: Time and Knowledge in Contemporary American
Literature.” Published as Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Ohio State
UP, 2009). Visiting assistant professor, UCLA.
Ph.D. 2003 Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, “The New Criminal Woman: Crime Fiction, Gender, and British
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Culture at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Published as Framed: The New
Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (University of Michigan
Press, 2008). Professor and Chair, University of California-Davis.
Ph.D. 2003 Youngjoo Son, “Here and Now: The Politics of Social Space and Modernist Utopias in D.
H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.” Published as Here and Now: The Politics of
Social Space in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf (Routledge, 2006). Associate
Professor, Seoul National University.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2008Editorial Boards, Contemporary Literature, ELN (English Language Notes), Modernism
Lab
2010Fellowship Reviewer, National Humanities Center (2010, 2011); Radcliffe Institute of
Advanced Study (2013; 2014)
2000Article Reviewer, PMLA; Comparative Literature; Contemporary Literature; NOVEL;
Modernism/Modernity; Studies in the Novel; Signs; Holocaust and Genocide Studies;
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture; New Literary History; Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
2001Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford University Press (U.S. and U.K.); Cambridge University
Press; Columbia University Press; Princeton University Press; University of Minnesota
Press; Broadview Press; Blackwell; Routledge; Fordham UP
2007Reviewer for promotion and tenure at various universities
2008-2012 Editor, Contemporary Literature.
2004-2008 Associate Editor, Contemporary Literature
1995-2003 Associate Editor. CultureWork book series, published by Routledge.
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